Detroit Public Schools

Type: Organization

Name: Detroit Public Schools

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Demands for stopping debt payments and calls for reparations in Detroit

DETROIT (FinalCall.com) - Organizers say Detroit must mobilize immediately against criminal global banks which have evicted 237,500 residents, shut down half the city’s public schools, and devastated city services and jobs, charging $600 million last ... [Published Final Call - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Detroit Public Schools, Foreclosure, Wall Street, UBS AG

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Woodward Academy

Are we allowing poor performing charter schools to expand in Michigan?

Credit Sarah Hulett / Michigan RadioDetroit Public Schools is offering 45 schools to charter companies.Education Trust-Midwest (ETM), "a statewide nonpartisan policy, research, and advocacy organization," released an analysis on the 32 charter schools ... [Published Michigan Public Radio - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Detroit Public Schools, Woodward Academy, Cesar Chavez

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

Carl Levin

Court denies Telford request to get Detroit schools job back

Detroit A federal court judge denied a request by the former interim superintendent of Detroit Public Schools for a temporary restraining order against the district's emergency manager to get his job back.John Telford sued Emergency Manager Roy Roberts, ... [Published Detroit News - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Telford (United States), Debbie Stabenow, Carl Levin

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

US Department of Education

Detroit school reform agency embellished bid to get $35M in federal funds

Lansing Education Achievement Authority officials overstated their authority to take over failing schools across Michigan in a bid to win a $35.4 million federal grant six weeks before they began operating in September.The application to the U.S. Department ... [Published Detroit News - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Bob Berg, Federal Funds, Detroit Public Schools, US Department of Education, Education

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

General Motors Company

GM Student Corps members will help impro...

DETROIT – A group of 110 Detroit-area high school students are about to begin paid summer internships as members of the brand new GM Student Corps, a program introduced May 20 by General Motors North America President Mark Reuss that combines service, ... [Published Michigan Citizen - May 24 2013]

Entities: General Motors Company, Detroit Public Schools, Mark Reuss, Junior Achievement

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Parents Rally To Keep School For Disabled Kids

(credit: Stephanie Davis/WWJ)DETROIT (WWJ) – A group of parents and residents are protesting the closing of Oakman Elementary/Orthopedic School in Detroit — which serves disabled students.Timothy Wright Jr, a 9-year-old student, fears not being accepted ... [Published CBS Detroit - May 23 2013]

Entities: Timothy Wright, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit (Michigan, United States), Roy Roberts

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Chicago Police Department

CPS CEO: "Our Children in Cleveland are Underperforming"

Does Barbara Byrd-Bennett know which citys schools shes closing? During an interview on Good Day Chicago, Bennett declared that the Chicago Public Schools decision to close 50 schools was not made haphazardly. It was made with children in mind and not ... [Published NBC Chicago - May 23 2013]

Entities: Cleveland (Ohio, United States), Chicago, Detroit Public Schools, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Public Schools

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Ex-River Rouge school leader gets prison for taking bribes

Delores Reid said she doesn't deserve 5 years in prison.Show Transcript Hide TranscriptKEEPING THE VOLUNTEERS SO VERY, VERY BUSY. THAT'S ALL FOR NOW. BACK TO YOU. Devin: THE WOMAN YOU SEE HERE JUST FOUND OUT SHE'S HEADED OFF TO PRISON, SOON. THAT WAS ... [Published ClickOnDetroit.com - May 23 2013]

Entities: Bribery, prison, Do It All, Detroit Public Schools

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Severe thunderstorm warning issued as storms approach Metro Detroit

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning until 8 p.m. for Oakland County as a line of thunderstorms moved through southeastern Michigan.Severe thunderstorms capable of 60 mph winds were detected in the area and are approaching ... [Published Detroit News - May 21 2013]

Entities: Oakland (California, United States), National Weather Service, Cass Technical High School, Detroit Public Schools

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Detroit expands its summer school academy

The Detroit Public Schools is expanding its summer school academy, reaching out to non-district students and offering a pre-kindergarten transitions program.The additions are part of a new strategic plan to increase enrollment and improve academic pe ... [Published ClickOnDetroit.com - May 21 2013]

Entities: Detroit (Michigan, United States), Detroit Public Schools, Strategic Plan

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 4 reports

GM Hires Detroit-area High Schoolers to Serve, Learn, Lead

As GM Student Corps members, they’ll help improve neighborhoods, learn valuable life skills SOURCE: General Motors DESCRIPTION: DETROIT, May 21, 2013 /3BL Media/ – A group of 110 Detroit-area high school students are about to begin paid summer internships ... [Published theCSRfeed - May 21 2013]

Entities: General Motors Company, Mark Reuss, Detroit (Michigan, United States), Mike DiGiovanni

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 3 reports

High school students begin planning ways to fix up Detroit neighborhoods through new GM program

But she said she is still a bit shy about talking to people, so the 16-year-old said she looks forward to using a paid summer internship for General Motors to help her meet new people while improving the community around her school. ?We?re talking about ... [Published Michigan Live - May 20 2013]

Entities: General Motors Company, Detroit (Michigan, United States), Mike DiGiovanni, Detroit Public Schools, Dave Bing

Quotes

...the statement that while the group supports high-quality charter schools, the group is concerned by some of the operators in charge of the schools. "Too many of the new charter schools opening are run by operators who are failing to do right by our parents and students" Arellano said

Education advocacy group slams operators of some new charter schools [Published Michigan Live - 9 hours ago]

"Gary is the person for the job and the independent-minded, tireless, middle-class advocate I need fighting with me in the Senate" Stabenow said

Court denies Telford request to get Detroit schools job back [Published Detroit News - 21 hours ago]

...grant application took liberties with other facts, claiming to be an IRS-authorized charitable organization and that EAA Chancellor John Covington "has been given the mandate and authority to take control of persistently poor performing schools throughout Michigan" an issue still being debated in the Legislature

Detroit school reform agency embellished bid to get $35M in federal funds [Published Detroit News - 21 hours ago]

...lacking, we have to get them on track to catch up with their peers and ensure they're prepared for graduation and postsecondary options," she said. "And not only will we work harder and smarter to better educate the students that we have, we must grow the district and open our summer programs to prospective students as well."

Detroit summer school open to high school students outside district [Published Detroit News - May 21 2013]

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This week in the War on Workers: Fierce protest... [Published Daily Kos - Mar 30 2013] Thousands rallied in protest of the planned closing of 54 Chicago public schools this week, with more than 120 ticketed by police after sitting down in the street. Protesters pointed out that the vast majority of the students affected by the closings ...
The Clueless Beltway Romney Bubble Pops [Published Slate - David Weigel - Mar 04 2013] The most recent Romney bubble had been the idea—kicked around by me, Charles Lane, and some wags on Twitter—that the former governor of Massachusetts should be made Emergency Manager of Detroit. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, has burst the ...
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Half of Detroit Properties Have Not Paid Taxes;... [Published Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis - Feb 23 2013] The hollowing out of Detroit is nearly complete. All that's left is a bankrupt shell of a city with no services and scattered citizens that do not pay taxes.The Detroit News reports Half of Detroit Property Owners Don't Pay Taxes Nearly half of the ...
LOWER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Stanford Univers... [Published Instapundit - Feb 08 2013] LOWER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Stanford University study finds charter school pupils gain an extra three months of learning. “Detroit school children are learning at a rate of an extra three months in school a year when in charter public schools ...

Press Releases

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The Children's Center Receives Top Supplier Awa... [Published PR Newswire - Jan 25 2013]
Cranbrook Institute of Science and Detroit Publ... [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - Jan 15 2013]